KU Ticket Scandal Will Help Other Schools

Five athletic officials at Kansas University had been profiting off football and basketball tickets from 2005-2009. All of those officials have been fired and the school has lost an estimated cost of 1 million dollars. The officials would conspire to get the tickets for football games and the sold out Allen Fieldhouse for basketball games and then pocket the money for themselves. The scam involved nearly 20,000 tickets all together over that time period. Officials at Kansas have said they have heard from a multitude of sports organizations asking them for help so that they too can prevent this from happening. Some in Lawrence are calling for Lew Perkins, the athletic director at KU, to be fired.